Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense.

All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the artists here.